{"title":"Is it Possible to Tie Down a Universal Museum Definition?","authors":"Lynn Maranda","doi":"10.4000/ISS.2672","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ISS.2672","url":null,"abstract":"Museums are known worldwide and even though they are a Western construct, similar facilities can be found everywhere. There is a cachet to having a museum in one’s community where it becomes a source of collective pride. Nevertheless, museums serve not one, but many communities and the question is whether that fact can be encapsulated in a definition which reflects the total community ethos and the many voices of its stakeholders. Minority and indigenous populations in particular are demanding their voices be heard and this has posed a problem for the creation of a museum definition. In the end, an inclusive, meaningful definition may not be readily found.","PeriodicalId":298869,"journal":{"name":"ICOFOM Study Series","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129206435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond the Modern Museum. A theoretical framework for a museal landscape analysis","authors":"S. Pastore","doi":"10.4000/ISS.2720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ISS.2720","url":null,"abstract":"Today museum studies have a duty to keep pace with the museum’s perpetual renewal. This paper, then, aims to outline a new research path in order to grasp what are today the most significant categories and features of the contemporary museum. This will be done by bringing together the contributions of two disciplines so close to each other in subject and purpose, yet still so far apart in the academic discourse, namely museology and the sociology of art. Through the intertwining of theories and concepts of social aesthetics, the systemic approach, and new and post-critical museology, an attempt is made to develop a new research programme to observe museal landscapes. This will be applied to the city of Naples, in the belief that, while it is true that every community is in a class by itself, and therefore cannot be generalized, this is not true of this method which, on the contrary, could be fruitfully applied to a wide number of contexts.","PeriodicalId":298869,"journal":{"name":"ICOFOM Study Series","volume":"148 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131399834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Definition Debate: From Paradigm Shift to Bend in the Road","authors":"M. Weiser","doi":"10.4000/ISS.2922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ISS.2922","url":null,"abstract":"The ancient theory of stasis provides a framework to work through a complex debate such as we in ICOM face over the definition of the museum. Its methodology helps determine just where the impasses lie so they can be separately resolved. Its philosophy sees these impasses not as stopping points but resting points, necessary bends in the road that allow all parties to address their concerns and come to new consensus that can lead the debate in creative directions. Rather than seeing arguments like the definition debate as incompatible values struggles, stasis sees them as complex and recursive arguments and searches for ways forward. I will use stasis to break down and analyse the current debate over a definition and then discuss ways a stasis perspective can help ICOM debate more productively.","PeriodicalId":298869,"journal":{"name":"ICOFOM Study Series","volume":"232 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133449485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"It Is, It Was, They Are, We Are: The Museum Definition as a Norm and a Collective Framework","authors":"M. Walz","doi":"10.4000/ISS.2875","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ISS.2875","url":null,"abstract":"The ICOM museum definition is widely accepted by museums and is also used as a tool for research into the history of museums. This external acceptance obscures the fact that the complete definition text is rarely filled by any one museum, rather it defines all museums. It can be argued that if all elements of a definition are only held by a minority of museums, the definition itself is possibly questionable. This paper argues that, in addition to the factual description of what a museum is (or was) or what distinguishes museums collectively, museum professionals increasingly claim space in that definition to professionalize themselves. The definition has been instrumental in defining museum professionals and in projecting what they think they are about.","PeriodicalId":298869,"journal":{"name":"ICOFOM Study Series","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115678814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The future of the phenomenon 'Tradition' and the future of Museology as a scientific discipline","authors":"L. Carvalho","doi":"10.4000/iss.2043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/iss.2043","url":null,"abstract":"In the proposal here presented, the first version of which was published in the “Materials for a discussion”, I have organized the theme into three parts: the first discusses the concept of Tradition and contemporary authors that reflect about it; the second discusses some reflections about science, considering it as a tradition and using Bourdieu as reference, and discussing also some ideas about museum and Museology; and finally, the future of these both, considering the time that we are living and a problem that, I stress, needs to be faced: the post-truth phenomenon.","PeriodicalId":298869,"journal":{"name":"ICOFOM Study Series","volume":"56 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124338839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Entre « géo-patrimonologie » et muséologie géopatrimoniale: enjeux théoriques pour un futur muséal","authors":"Fabien Van Geert","doi":"10.4000/iss.2234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/iss.2234","url":null,"abstract":"Cet article part du postulat que l’emergence d’une nouvelle forme de patrimoine – le geopatrimoine –, a donne lieu a deux types de reflexions museales, selon que ce dernier soit conserve in ou ex situ. Une comparaison entre ces dernieres amene au constat d’une absence relative de liens entre elles, mais aussi d’un certain manque d’innovation dans l’approche museale des institutions conservant ces collections, contrairement a l’approche in situ du geopatrimoine. L’article propose alors un renouveau de la recherche museologique pour ces collections, en englobant les reflexions menees tant sur le geopatrimoine localise ex situ qu’in situ afin de garantir un nouveau futur pour ces collections.","PeriodicalId":298869,"journal":{"name":"ICOFOM Study Series","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123478589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rupture and continuity: the future of tradition in museology","authors":"Bruno Brulon Soares","doi":"10.4000/iss.1961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/iss.1961","url":null,"abstract":"Recently in Museu do Indio, a national institution in Rio de Janeiro safeguarding an important part of Brazilian indigenous heritage, conservators discussed a new method for the preservation of ethnographic collections. Based on local knowledge, museum professionals considered using a chopped banana stem as a new technology for pest control in one of the museum’s most sensitive reserves. According to one of the museum’s conservators, this method helps to avoid the infestation of organic mater...","PeriodicalId":298869,"journal":{"name":"ICOFOM Study Series","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121911893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"El museo analizado desde la sociología simétrica","authors":"Scarlet Rocío Galindo Monteagudo","doi":"10.4000/iss.2068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/iss.2068","url":null,"abstract":"El presente ensayo responde las interrogantes: ?Que es la Teoria del Actor Red (TAR)?, ?que es la sociologia simetrica?, ?que utilidad tiene el uso de esta teoria en la investigacion museologica? En el se revisaran aplicaciones de la TAR como marco teorico en investigaciones museologicas y en la creacion de exposiciones. Con la finalidad de aclarar algunos conceptos y revisar la utilidad del uso de esta teoria en la construccion del futuro de la museologia.","PeriodicalId":298869,"journal":{"name":"ICOFOM Study Series","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122260239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Museología Experimental. Hacia un método práctico","authors":"Melissa Aguilar Rojas","doi":"10.4000/iss.1980","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/iss.1980","url":null,"abstract":"El texto incentiva la investigacion e implementacion de practicas museologicas experimentales con un enfoque enactivo, con el objetivo de facilitar experiencias significativas en los visitantes del museo. Se analizan aspectos que justifican la necesidad de despertar agencia en la persona visitante desde la apropiacion tecnologica y el pensamiento critico, especialmente en el contexto latinoamericano.","PeriodicalId":298869,"journal":{"name":"ICOFOM Study Series","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127777487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}